Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting

Budget Quicker

IBM Cognos TM1 simplifies the planning, budgeting & forecasting process, making it easier to input, aggregate and analyze information.

With its Excel-friendly front-end, versatile real-time server and accessible web facilities, Cognos TM1 helps you develop timely, reliable forecasts, budgets and plans, which can reduce planning cycles by as much as 75%

Functional Areas

Expense Planning, Revenue Planning, HR Planning, Capital Planning, Long Range Planning, Cash flow forecasting, Balance Sheet Planning, Sales Forecasting

Product Features & Benefits

  • Excel look & Feel
  • Real time continuous planning & reporting
  • Versioning - create and control multiple planning scenarios
  • Complete management of workflow, audit trail, versioning, scenarios and approval status processes
  • Allows budget managers anywhere in the business to compare budgets to forecasts
  • Automatic allocation of changes, to modify data at all levels of aggregation and to distribute the change automatically to lower levels of detail (e.g. budget by division and allocate to items and customers)
  • Rolling forecasts
  • Top Down / Bottom Up Budgeting
  • Driver-based planning
  • One version of the truth
  • Security - role based security to support multiple users and user types

Cognos Express: Planning, Forecasting & BI for Midsize Companies

Start Date: Tuesday May 8, 2012 @ 2pm
Time Zone: EDT
Registration: FREE

IBM Cognos FSR: The Silver Bullet for Automated SEC Reporting & XBRL Detailed Footnote Tagging

Start Date: Thursday, May 24, 2012 @ 2:00pm
Time Zone: EST
Registration: FREE